Ion G. Duca

Ion Gheorghe Duca (20 December 1879-30 December 1933) was Prime Minister of Romania from 14 November to 30 December 1933, succeeding Alexandru Vaida-Voevod and preceding Constantin Angelescu. He was assassinated by the Iron Guard in 1933.

Biography
Ion Gheorghe Duca was born on 20 December 1879 in Bucharest, Romania, and he served in the Chamber of Deputies for the Romanian National Liberal Party after 1907, becoming Minister of Foreign Affairs on 19 January 1922. In 1933, King Carol II of Romania asked Duca to become Prime Minister to oversee elections, and he tried to check the rise to power of the Iron Guard far-right fascist and anti-Semitic movement. After jailing thousands of Iron Guard members and having police kill several of them, Duca was gunned down at the Sinaia train station on 30 December 1933 in revenge. His death was one of the many that the Iron Guard was responsible for during the 1930s.